Remember All The Heroes

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Remember Them Today
By La Belle Rouge

On Memorial Day we remember with gratitude
those who paid the ultimate cost
in the service of our country.

We visit gravesites, write tributes,
simply pause from everyday activities
to spend time remembering, or we should.

Today when you celebrate
the greatness of America and her heroes
don't forget to be grateful
to the loved ones of soldiers
who have also paid the awful cost of war.

Remember the parents
who will never be grandparents
and the children left parentless.

Don't forget the young wives who spent
a lifetime trying to pick up the pieces
of her husband's life and emotions

Those who welcomed home a man
so different physically or mentally
than the one she knew before the war

Remember the children who never knew their father,
just a grave marker
or a shell of him all their lives

Remember the Vets who still suffer
from war related wounds and diseases
and those who still scream
with terror in their dreams.

So sad so immeasurable the loss...
to the dead and to the living.
On Memorial Day, and other days
let us never forget.